ML20126B863

Documents Results of 921203 Meeting W/Util at Region I Ofc Re Licensee Planned & Completed C/A Re Facility AOs Who Had Been Found to Have Unacceptable Performance

ML20126B863
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	12/14/1992
From:	Hodges M NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:	Feigenbaum T NORTH ATLANTIC ENERGY SERVICE CORP. (NAESCO)
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NUDOCS 9212220253
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i Docket No. 50-443 Mr. T. C. Felgenbaum Senior Vice Fresident and Chief Nuclear Ofncer North Atlantic linergy Service Corpofation p.O.11ox 300 Seabrook, New ilampshire 03874

Dear Mr. Feigenbaum:

SUlijECT:

Dl!CliMilER 3,1992, MilliTING TO DISCUSS RlilNSTATEMENT OF OPERATOR LICENSES This letter documents the results of a meeting requested by your staff to discuss the planned

<l completed corrective actions regarding Seabrook auxiliary operators (AOs) who had been nd to have unacceptable performance. The meeting took place at the Region I of0cc on

ember 3,1992, and involved liruce Drawbridge and Terry liarpster of your company and Cnaries Hehl, myself, and our staffs from Region 1.

l Mr. Drawbridge su a 'arized the evaluation of improper auxiliary operator performance, as begun by a Seabrots shift supervisor on March 1,1992, and pursued extensively by Seabrook management. The Seabrook evaluation found that there had been instances in which AOs had documented visual checks which had not actually been performed. This evaluation resulted in disciplin,.ty action directed by Mr. Drawbridge, including separation of four people from your company and suspension without pay for two weeks for nine people, in addition, of the nine people suspended, three held reactor operator licenses, which your company requested be terminated.

Mr. Drawbridge provided a general description of the remediation process pursued with the nine suspended AOs, which has included management emphasis on professionalism, training _

regarding technical specifications, peer and supervisory evaluation of job performance, revision of continuing training to better address job specific functions, and discussions of teamwork within the different operating shifts. Ilased on satisfactory completion of the remediation and subsequent evalu'tions, the nine AOs returned to unrestricted duty on operating shifts in July.

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Further, hir Drawbridge stated your company's intention to pursue the reinstatement of NRC

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i licenses for the three previously licensed operators, lie discussed the process envisioned by.

your company in general terms and estimated that the technical training and testing process needed to return the operators' skills to the appropriate level would occur over a period of several months. There were no specific requests made by your company concerning the_

l potential reinstatement, and the NRC personnel did not provide any specific guidance or take any action regarding the possible reinstatement of the three previously licensed operators, in summary, we appreciate this opportunity to meet with you to discuss the remediation of nine Seabrook AOs and your intention to pursue the reinstatement of RO licenses to three of these AOs. hir. Drawbridge and hir liarpster did not reque,;t any action, guidance, or clarincation by the NRC, and none was provided by NRC personnel, i

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t,brvin W. Ho&S h1arvin W.11odges, Director -

Divi 3ica of Reactor Safety cc:

B. L. Drawbridge, Executive Director of Nuclear Production W. DiProno, Station hianager R. liallisey, Director, Dept. of Public ilcalth, Commonwealth of h1assachusetts S. Woodhouse, legislative Assistant T. Rapone, hiassachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety D. Tcfft, Administrator, Bureau of Radiological llcalth, State of New llampshire Public Document Room (PDR)

Local Public Document Room (LPDR)

Nuclear Safety infer nation Center (NSIC)

K. Abraham, PAO (2)

NRC Resident inspector State of New 11ampshire, SLO Commonwealth of biassachusetts, SLO Designee Seabrook Service List l

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Region 1 Docket Roo,1 (with concurrences and IFS Forms)

M. Ilodges, DRS W lanning, DRS L. Bettenhausen, DRS G. Meyer, DRS W, liehl, DRP R. Blough, DRP J. Rogge, DRP DRS/EB SALP Coordinator W. lazarus, DRP J. Linville, DRP N. Dudley, SRI - Seabrook (w/ concurrences and IFS Forms)

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t SEADROOK SELVICE LIST Thomas D, A Ssquire Diane Curran, Esquire John A. Rheer, Esquire 11armon and Weiss Ropes and Gray 2001 S Street, N.W.

One International Place Suite 430 Boston, Massachusetts 02110-2624 Washington, D.C.

20009 Mr. J. F. Opeka Regional Administrator, Region 1 Northeast Utilities U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P. O. Box 270 475 Allendale Road Hartford, Connecticut 06141 0270 King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 Mr. A. David Rodham, Director John P. Arnold, Attorney General Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency G. Dana Bisbee, Associate Attorney 400 Wechester Road, Box 1496 General Framingham, Massachusetts 01701 0134 Attorney General's Office A*ITN: Mr. James B. Muckerheide 25 Capitol Street State Nuclear Engineer Concord, New Hampshire 03301 Robert Backus, Esquire Mr. R. M. Kacich Backus, Meyer and Solomon Northeast Utilities Service Company 116 Lowell Street P. O. Box 270 Manchester, New Hampshire 03106 Hartford, Connecticut 061414)270 Mr. T. L. Harpster Office of the Attorney General North Atlantic Energy Service Corporation One Ashburton Place Post Office Box 300 20th Floor Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Seacoast Anti-Pollution League Town of Exeter 5 Market Street 10 Front Street Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801 Exeter, New Hampshire 03823 Mr. David W. Graham Stephen G. Burns, Director Fuel Supply Planning Manager Office of Commission Appellate l

' Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Adjudication L

Electric Company U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20555 P. O. Box 426 01056 Ludlow, Massachusetts j:

Gerald Garfield, Esquire Board of Selectmen Day, Berry and Howard Town of Amesbury City Place Town' Hall Hartford, Connecticut 06103-3499 Amesbury, Massachusetts 01913 L

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Resident inspector Mr. Peter Brann U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Assistant Attorney General Scabrook Nuclear Power Station State House, Station #6 Post Office Box 1149 Augusta, Maine 04333 Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874 Jane Spector Adjudicatory File (2)

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel 825 North Capital Street, N.E.

Docket Room 8105 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

20426 Washington, D.C.

20555 Mr. George L. Iverson, Director Mr. Jack Dolan New Hampshire Office of Emergency Federal Emergency Management Agency Management Region I State Office Park South J.W. McCormack Post Office and 107 Pleasant Street Courthouse Building, Room 442 Concord, New Hampshire 03301 Boston, Massachusetts 02109 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Congressman Nicholas Mavroules Panel U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 70 Washington Street Washington, D.C.

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